Publisher's Synopsis
Of the many astonishing achievements of The Beatles during their career, 1964's A Hard Day's Night was their greatest - a film that took the group to the four corners of the world and made them instantly recognisable everywhere.
Although their other highlights may include massive world tours, million-selling records including Hey Jude, She Loves You and Sgt Pepper, A Hard Day's Night catapulted them to a peak in their career from which they would not fall for the remainder of the decade.
This book details the rise of the group through the making of a film which the production company saw only as an exercise in capitalising on their sudden popularity, but with no expectation that it would be anything more than a 'here today gone tomorrow' project.
A Hard Day's Night confounded film critics and remains perhaps the only 'pop' musical to be afforded serious attention, regularly listed among the greatest musical films ever made. Chapters deal with their career both before and after the making of the film, placing A Hard Day's Night once and for all at the very centre of Beatlemania
